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Clay Animation—Listen to Podcast (requires iTunes)

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In this podcast teachers with experience in clay animation discuss their rationale, how they plan projects with tips for experts and beginners, and share their different software and hardware workflows.

Listen to podcast or subscribe to automatically download this and future episodes of the Video in the Classroom podcast from iTunes.

These are the educators featured in the podcast with examples of the work they discuss:

 

 

Greg Paulsen, Second Grade, Wisconsin

Mr. Paulsen and students edit films with Boinx Software's iStop Motion and Macintosh computers.

See all of Mr. Paulsen's clay animation films here.

 

 

Kevin Hodgson, Sixth Grade, Massachusetts

These are all Mr. Hodgson's TeacherTube films
including his ABC Alphabet collaborative project.
Select clay animation films on the bottom.

Mr. Hodgson uses a variety of formats from clay animation to puppet shows to engage and motivate students in his teaching of writing.

Mr. Hodgson and students use free software programs, Stop Motion Animator and Pivot with PCs.

Read Mr. Hodgson's blog to find out more about his digital stoytelling adventures or find out more about his summer clay animation camp here.

 

 
Carolyn Daly, Tech4Learning, California



see examples of other projects Carolyn talks about in podcast here.

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Carolyn Daly is an experienced educator who now works for Tech4Learning.

Tech4Learning's Clay Animation product, Frames, includes professional modeling clay and works on both Macs and PCs.

The examples Carolyn talks about can be seen here.

 
     
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